Wheelchairs mean different affairs to different people. Where certain individuals require a wheelchair for lifelong others merely need a wheelchair for their improvement. Which other ways you require them may vary but one thing is sure, this modern wheelchair is a marvel in design as compared to 100 years ago.

Wheelchairs are of 2 kinds, first is the power wheelchair & the second one is the manual wheelchair. Both wheelchairs have limitations & advantages. The folding frame and the rigid frame are the 2 classes of the manual wheelchairs. The folding wheelchair folds easily (wheel against wheel) for easy compressed transportation.

But the folding frame manual wheelchairs are heavy. The one piece rigid frames have no scissor arms that are needed for folding so, this wheelchair is much light in weight. Sport wheelchair is the another name awarded to rigid frame wheelchair.

There are manual wheelchairs and powered wheelchairs to make our choice. The advantages of each are distinguished with demerits. Such simple wheelchair gives the user a bodily exercise in arm exercise. You can move twenty miles in your power wheelchair without tiring yourself. Luckily the using provides no physical labor at all.